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      tiengdung90 last edited by

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        @ivo Thank you.
        Old topic or not,I learned the dust particles and other air masses from it.
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          I seem to have lost the lightening strike function, am I missing a setting or something?

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            Korina Administrator last edited by

            @EricRaisch Hello, lightnings strikes work. Does the issue still persist?

            Korina

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                altabird | Premium last edited by

                Wind direction and speed
                Hour of 24 hour clock
                Date
                Wave height

                Can I get all this with one click? It worked yesterday but can,t figure out how to display that data at once with different colored lines of the data

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                  Korina Administrator @altabird last edited by

                  @altabird Hello, you will find this information in detailed forecast. Click on the map and expand the picker.

                  Korina

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                    Baldo1191 @Korina | Premium last edited by

                    @korina Good morning, I have a question in relation to the weather icons. I have highlighted the hours from 4pm to 6pm, why do we see the icons "Cloudy with rain or thunder" and in parallel we have 0 mm of precipitation?

                    Thanks a lot!

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                      Yves70 Meteorologist @Baldo1191 | Premium last edited by

                      @baldo1191
                      This is because the level of rain expected is below the minimum threshold.
                      In general, below 0.3mm you can hardly notice that it is raining

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                        Baldo1191 @Yves70 | Premium last edited by

                        @yves70 Thanks! I have had the same feeling but the confirm sounds better.

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                          Baldo1191 @Yves70 | Premium last edited by

                          @yves70 I have another question about rain layer.
                          I read that the rain and thunder layer shows the sum of the precipitation of the last three hours. If I compare the information from the map (red circle) with the sum of precipitation shown in the meteogram (red rectangle) I have no correspondence. The picker indicates 7.4 mm of rain, in contrast the meteogram shows 9.8 mm of rain (sum of precipitation of 9pm, 10pm and 11pm ). Why do we have this disagreement?

                          Many thanks!

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                            Yves70 Meteorologist @Baldo1191 | Premium last edited by

                            @baldo1191
                            I understand that you can be surprised to see those differences although you should not.
                            There are different elements :

                            1. the figures after the coma have not a lot of meaning so 7.4mm could be easily 8mm and on 9.8mm could be easily 9mm. Of course it could be 7mm and 10mm as well
                            2. what the picker is showing is rain accumulation, this is the equivalent to the data from the map called rain accumulation. The data in the meteogram and data from rain accumulation are both calculated by the model, meaning that by definition you can get different values knowing that on top of this difference, Windy is smoothing the data which will also affect a bit the data.
                              The conclusion is that you should take that as a nice opportunity to get 2 sets of data for rain accumulation, so in your example you can guess that rain accumulation could be somewhere in the middle so around 8.5mm. It is a bit the same approach as comparing the data from 2 different weather models
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                              Baldo1191 @Yves70 | Premium last edited by

                              @yves70 Thanks for your indications.
                              I agree with you both on decimal values and the data smoothing by Windy, but the map and meteogram should be calculated with the same model, isn't it? So, the same information calculated with the same model on the same coordinates on the same time step. If this is true, I can't understand why we see this disagreement.

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                                Yves70 Meteorologist @Baldo1191 | Premium last edited by

                                @baldo1191
                                As I said above, data from the meteogram and data from the rain accumulation map, even if they are both coming from the same weather forecast model like ECMWF, they don't come from the same calculation within the model. On top, you have the smoothing effect from the app. Therefore results can be different. This is interesting because if you calculate the same thing by 2 different ways and results are the same, probability is high that the result is correct

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                                  Baldo1191 @Yves70 | Premium last edited by

                                  @yves70 Thanks for your information! I didn't understand that the model uses different algorithms, now it's clear! Thanks a lot!

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                                    Obaidfarooq @gjwolfswinkel last edited by

                                    @gjwolfswinkel it means at what height/altitude (above ground) the temperature is 0 Degree Celsius for the given location/area.

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                                      idefix37 Sailor Moderator @Obaidfarooq last edited by idefix37

                                      @Obaidfarooq

                                      Please note that the freezing altitude, i.e. the 0°C isotherm, is now sea level (msl).
                                      See this post:

                                      https://community.windy.com/topic/16034/isotherm-0-c/5?_=1626989848785

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                                        GreatKingnan @Yves70 last edited by

                                        @yves70 said in Description of weather overlays:

                                        @baldo1191
                                        I understand that you can be surprised to see those differences although you should not.
                                        There are different elements :

                                        1. the figures after the coma have not a lot of meaning so 7.4mm could be easily 8mm and on 9.8mm could be easily 9mm. Of course it could be 7mm and 10mm as well
                                        2. what the picker is showing is rain accumulation, this is the equivalent to the data from the map called rain accumulation. The data in the meteogram and data from rain accumulation are both calculated by the model, meaning that by definition you can get different values knowing that on top of this difference, Windy is smoothing the data which will also affect a bit the data.
                                          The conclusion is that you should take that as a nice opportunity to get 2 sets of data for rain accumulation, so in your example you can guess that rain accumulation could be somewhere in the middle so around 8.5mm. It is a bit the same approach as comparing the data from 2 different weather models

                                        @yves70 Thanks for your interpretation, I've already been confused by this disagreement for a long time, too! Finally find a reasonable answer here.
                                        The one thing I'd like to confirm is whether the rainfall values on the basic forecast and Meteogram still represent the precipitation accumulated from the previous hour (or in the last 3-hr)?

                                        And I'd also like to know whether the value of 'rain' in Meteogram actually represents the large-scale precipitation or not? Since the total precipitation is the sum of large-scale & convective precipitation in both ECMWF & GFS, according to their paramter description. It seems that the total amount of precipitation has been split into two parts in the bar graph in Meteogram: the large-scale term and convective term. Furthermore, the sum of 'Rain' and 'Covective' is exact the value in basic list, which might indicate the total precipitation. Does it indicate the term 'Rain' might be equivalent to the large-scale precipitation in Meteogram?

                                        Thanks again!

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                                          Yves70 Meteorologist @GreatKingnan | Premium last edited by

                                          @greatkingnan
                                          The rainfall in the basic meteogram, for non Premium users, is the accumulation of the last 3h, for Premium users it can be displayed by 1h
                                          This is the total of rain

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                                            GreatKingnan @Yves70 last edited by

                                            @yves70 Yeah, I know the data in Premium and free version are different (1h v.s. 3h). But the question is...I just want to make sure that the definition of the rainfall value shown on the layers and meteogram is still the same? Thanks for your help!

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